BTK Killings The Otero Family Rader's first victims

Dennis Lynn Rader (aka) BTK killer or the BTK strangler was an American serial killer who viciously murdered 10 people in Wichita, Kansas from 1974-1991. He was finally arrested in 2005 and is currently serving 10 consecutive life sentences at El Dorado Correctional Facility, with an earliest possible release date of February 26, 2180.

His moniker of BTK was also his M.O. in the killings, Bind, Torture and Kill.

The Otero family is considered the first of Rader's victims. On January 15, 1974, Rader broke into this house tied up the family and killed them. Among the victims were the husband, wife and their two young children. Joseph Otero Jr. age 9 and his sister, Josephine Otero age 11.

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